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good morning. it is monday march 2nd 2015. welcome to "cbs this morning." coast-to-coast storms affect millions. new storms in the northeast while the midwest struggles to break free from the record cold. government workers watching porn and throwing wasteful parties. why are they still on the job? cbs news investigates. a skydiver rescued thousands of feet in the air. we'll hear from the man who saved him. but we begin this world with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> the roads are terrible.
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>> snow, rain and ice from coast to coast. >> winter misery in new england. boston with its all-time snowfall record. >> messy weather across the northwest. >> it continues to bring us rainfall as well as those snowfall chances. iraqi state tv says government forces have launched a major event against isis this morning. i am very concerned. >> benjamin netanyahu has arrived in washington. ahead, his controversial speech before congress. >> the only conflicts i the flood. >> the loss of very slain opposition leader boris nemtsov. >> new york city police are inlookr g fospukts in a massive
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brawl that sent three people to the hospital. >> all that -- >> throwing a brick at a car window, then getting knocked out by the very same brick. car marx you see. >> and all that matters. >> a skydiver has had a seizier. >> i'm here to tell the tale. >> -- on "cbs this morning." so on your tombstone first line is going to be writer? writer, really? is that what they put on tombstones? >> no, what they love. >> what they love? i like to watch tv. >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. let's go places. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." winter is refusing to loosen its icy grip less than three weeks before the spring. right now there is snow on the
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ground in 47 of the lower 48 states. florida is the only holdout. >> millions of people from the midwest to the northeast are waking up to more snow this morning after yet another winter blast. and there is another storm coming tomorrow. anna werner is in boston where the new snow is pushing the city closer to an all-time record. anna good morning. >> reporter: good morning, norah. welcome to snow mountain. boston is now within 4 inches of the snowiest winter of all time. the record was set in 1995 and 1996 season. it was 107.6 inches of snow. well, snow farms like this one are being used to dump and then melt that snow that 8 feet of snow that has already blasted the city. the storm hit boston last night dumping a new layer of fresh snow on a city still recovering from what's been a relentless
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winter. >> i do have to put plywood over my windows because snow is up to the roof and i'm afraid it's going to crash through the window. >> reporter: earlier on sunday 5 inches blanketed manhattan, creating a picturesque scene in central park and a mess in the streets. cars in nearby yonkers were stuck in place. one needed a shove. the system also brought treacherous conditions to drivers in the midwest. black ice caused skidding in missouri tumbling in oklahoma, and sidelined at least a dozen cars in north carolina. >> your life flashed before your eyes. i didn't know how to control my car. i was swerving a lot. >> reporter: last month, states plunged into record cold temperatures. sections of boston harbor was frozen solid. a u.s. coast guard ship cut pathways for boats. others navigated around a
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similar challenge. this image shows the great lakes. their surfaces are now nearly 90% covered in ice. boston workers are removing 950 truckloads of snow every night from the city's crowded streets and people are using anything they can find to save those now elusive parking spots. >> we've had a month of storms here. thousands of cars are still buried>> reporter: so residents are going to lose their parking spacesavers starting today. trash collectors are going to start picking them up. meanwhile this snow mountain is a graphic illustration of just how much money massachusetts has spent on snow removal this year. nearly $100 million. and believe it or not fwail, it could be even more money than that with another round of snow forecast for tomorrow. gayle? >> i believe it. that picture really tells a story. thank you, anna. chicago just had its coldest february in 140 years. the average temperature was 14.6
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degrees. this harbor light on lake michigan shows the effect of all that cold. meteorologist danielle niles of our boston station wbz is watching more winter weather moving in. oh, no danielle. people are sick of this hello. >> i know. good morning to you. we are getting a little bit sick of it here gayle. we flipped the calendar to march but no change in the weather pattern. temperatures still today 20s to 30s from the central plains from the midwest to the northeast. running 15 degrees below. blizzard conditions in parts of minnesota. stretching east icing concerns. few inches possible. chicago will create treacherous travel. spreading snow and a mix. one more wave behind it too may bring a little burst of snow as we head into the end of the week. snowfall totals will top out 3 to 6 inches in some spots from the midwest stretching into
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northern and central new england. charlie, back to you. >> danielle, thanks. the israeli prime minister in washington this morning amid growing tension with the white house. prime minister benjamin ya hue is expected to deliver a speech to congress tomorrow. major garrett is at the white house. major, good morning. >> good morning. benjamin netanyahu is running for re-election. leekz day is march 17th. and his angry disagreement with president obama over a possible nuclear deal are at the center of that re-election campaign. caught in the middle the historical resilient bipartisan relationship between the united states and israel. before leaving for washington prime minister benjamin netanyahu prayed at the western wall in the old city of jerusalem telling reporters he respected president obama but strongly opposes the agreement being negotiating with iran arguing it could endanger israel's very existence.
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the white house wants a deal that prevents iran from making a nuclear bomb something secretary of state john kerry has said has been accomplished by the interim deal already in place. >> i believe we deserve the benefit of the doubt to find out whether or not we can get a similarly good agreement with respect to the future. >> reporter: israel says the u.s. plan would leave too much nuclear technology intact. i rarngs netanyahu says must be denied the capability to make a bomb the sentiment behind this full page ad in "new york times" by a hard-lined jewish group providing that susan rice overlooked genocide in the 1990s and may again. >> she's the president's national security adviser. you may differ with her, but there's no justification for an ad like that. >> in a "face the nation" exclusive exclusive, house speaker john boehner said he did not regret inviting benjamin netanyahu to speak without the white house's
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consent. >> what i do wonder is why the white house feels threatened because the congress wants to support israel and wants to hear what a trusted ally has to say. >> reporter: the administration took pains sunday to quantify support for israel nearly $20 billion in aid before the president took office and 18 times before the united nations opposed it. they criticized it for singling out israel for condemnation. later john kerry will meet with the foreign minister. the deadline for a deal with iran is the end of this month. norah? >> all right major. thank you so much. this morning authority this moscow are offering a nearly $50,000 help find the killer of boris nemtsov. the opposition leader was shot and killed friday. clarissa ward is in moscow where some suspects the government was involved. clarissa, good morning. >> reporter: good morning.
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this is the exact spot where boris anymore some of was shot dead. you can see the mountain of flowers that is growing here. what has shocked people most, though, about this murder, if you take a look we are literally just steps away from the kremlin. armed with flowers and flags, tens of thousands took to the streets to honor boris nemtsov. there were occasional shout ss of russia without putin. the former prime minister addressed the crowd. >> i understand and i believe that this tragic event which happened two days ago, it's for the whole history of russia. >> reporter: some of the marchers carried banners that said "i am not afraid," but in reality many who support the democratic values that nemtsov
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embodied are very afraid. video shows the moments before nemtsov's murder before friday night. you can see the street is busy. the gunman shot him four times in the back before jumping into the car. he served under the former president. under putin's reign he became known as a rare voice of dissent. just hours before he was killed he was on radio encouraging people to attend an opposition protest scheduled for the next day. rm according to nemtsov's lawyer the opposition leader had received death threats tied to a report he was preparing on russia's military involvement in ukraine. president putin has called the execution a provocation and has oldered an investigation, but those close to nemtsov say even if the kremlin wasn't behind the killing, they're responsible for
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the wave of nationalism here whereby anyone who speaks out against the official narrative is a target. gayle? >> thank you, clarissa. the justice department could release its investigation of police in ferguson missouri, this week. the report will allege widespread racial discrimination. "the new york times" says the report faults police for disproportionately arresting and ticketing blacks. the deadly shooting of black teenager michael brown triggered widespread rioting in ferguson last sum jeer this morning multiple investigations are been launched after a shooting in los angeles. officers struggled with a suspect at a homeless encampment. as we're shown, it will allow us to soo what happened. >> reporter: the posting on the video shows what led up to the deadly shooting sunday morning.
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as several officers confronted a man on a sidewalk along los angeles's infamous skid row. two officers in the foreground handcuff a woman who tried to get involved while a handful of other officers appeared to wrestle the man to the ground. in the video someone can be heard repeteredly telling the man to drop his gun. police say there was a struggle over one of the officer's weapons. at least five shots can be heard on the video. according to the lapd two officers and a sergeant opened fire on the man. the department says officers were originally responding to reports of a witnesses in the area say the man was menially ill. >> they should have shot him in the knee or rectum. they didn't have to kill him. >> reporter: they say at least one officer was wearing a body camera during the incident. they also plan to use audio enhancement software to better
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understand the final minutes leading up to the shooting. >> it's obviously a very disturbing video. any time you see an officer-involved shooting or someone losing their life, it's tragic. it's a tragic situation any time someone gets killed. for "cbs this morning," ben tracy, los angeles. iraq this morning is trying to recapture saddam hussein's hometown by isis. they launched the military operation in tikrit overnight. that's about 80 miles close to baghdad. the iraqi army is fighting the shiite and sunni allies. the iraqi jets are carrying out those air strikes. >> the man known as gee ha d john once described himself a idea man walking. this morning newly released e-mails reveal more about mohammed emwazi's background before he joined isis. and the newspaper was told he was an innocent target. elizabeth palmer is in london.
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good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that's right. well, the emwazi family no longer live here. in fact, although they would have been able to tell us a lot more about young mohammed's life and especially his radicalization, they have now left the country. nowhere in all the photos of mohammed emwazi as a happy little boy who grew into a teenager with a buzz cut and eventually into a bearded young computer science student is there any hint he'd become so-called jihadi john. an extremist killer who was present at and appears to have carried out the beheadings of isis prisoners including three americans. he's just one of the several hundred british men over the past five years who have joined isis to become fighters in syria, but it's not clear yet where or when emwazi was radicalized. we do know that by his early 20s he was on the watch list of british security who stopped him
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back and forth traveling to kuwait where both he and his father were born. frustrated he wrote to a muslim advocacy group. i feel like a prisoner. only not in a cage in london controlled by secret service servicemen. stuck in the uk unable to return to his i.t. job in kuwait, he e-mailed a journalist. sometimes i feel like a dead man walking, fearing that one day i'll take as many pills as i can so that i can sleep forever. but instead he found a way to slip out of britain and complete the long journey from an apparently normal childhood in a london suburb toeracamera-loving execution. the media are reporting that the family has been brought in for questioning. they'll be asked about any clues they may be able to furnish that would lead to mohammed's arrest. charlie? >> elizabeth, thanks. republicans on capitol hill
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are trying again this week to avoid a partial shutdown at homeland security. congress approved a one-week extension on friday. nancy cordes is on capitol hill where dozens of gop members are using the budget to fight immigration reform. nancy, good morning. >> good morning. you know republicans took control of both houses of congress a couple of months ago, promising to reduce gridlock but they are finding that is difficult to do especially when one of the biggest divides is within their own party. >> we get in an argument over tactics from time to time. the goals are all the same. >> reporter: house gop leaders were all reading from the same skrikt sunday trying to downplay an internal party rift. >> we have a difference of opinion in strategy and tactics. >> for instance on how we want to go about tactics, but our goals are the same. >> the goals did not seem to be the same friday night when several dozen conservatives
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bunked the plan. they opposed full funding unless the president changes course on immigration. >> mr. president, you have usurped far too much power. we can't let you destroy the constitution any further. >> reporter: but republican leaders say that's a legislative dead end. >> to allow a shutdown of these critical functions would be an abdication of one of our primary duties as members of the house. >> reporter: it's the latest in a series of clashes. they had to update a vote on legislative services after conservatives revolted. one had to be pulled. on nation face the nation john dicker dickersons john boehner if it's hard to lead in this environmental. >> it's a ram bunk shus members
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windchill very 400 or 500 members, a lot of them with differences of opinion on what they should or shouldlet be doing. >> can you lead? >> i think so. i think so. >> all of families ups and downs it will be interesting to see how those family meetings go this week when speaker boehner and the rest of the republicans try once again to avoid friday's fiasco and keep the lights on at dhs. norah. >> yes. we'll be watching closely. nan circle thank you so much. it's 7:19. ahead, it's s
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>> this is it. looks lieu you s do you need any help with your bag? >> no. >> looks like you've about got it. >> dad, it's just isis. >> take care of her. >> death to america. >> isis. we'll take it from here, dad. that skit from "snl" generate add whole lot of backlash. many tweeted it was offensive. but he's defending it today on
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twitter. he said, quote proud of this freedom to mock is our greatest weapon. thanks to the writers who asked not to be mentioned by name. so it is the talk that everyone's talking about this morning. i was watching it. i was cringing and wincing. i know it's freedom of speech but -- thoughts, anyone? just be by myself? >> i also thought it was cringeworthy. >> i thought so too. welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up this half hour, cbs investigates why is it so hard to discipline or fire federal workers who behave badly on the job. >> plus, can text messages kill? a high school honor stay tuned could go to prison for a friend's suicide. legal analyst rikki klieman is here with the case. testing the limits of the law and fast-growing technology. that's ahead. >> it is time to show you some of this morning's headlines. "buzzfeed" says isis supporters are threatening to kill twitter
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employees. they're upset someone is blocking their accounts. they declare war on the company. they call on jihadi's worldwide to carry out attacks. "the new york times" looks at a new way of standardized testing that begins this week in several states. in new jersey dozens of parents have refused to let their children take this test. in the town of bloomfield 97 of 250 students have already opted out. and "the seattle times" says marshawn lynch is opening up about the last play of the super bowl on turkish tv. >> i would be a liar if i didn't tell you i was expecting the ball. >> he said he would love the get the ball but he wouldn't criticize them. he had full confidence in his teammates because they had done it before. lynch is in turkey on a good will tour for football. >> so that's the secret. you put a turn eric camera in front of him and he speaks.
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i'm always curious what he has to say. >> he handles it well. >> i like to hear him speak. this morning an australian man is talking about a horrifying skydiving experience. he had a seizure during a 12,000-foot fall. it happened about an hour south of perth in western australia. vladimir duthiers shows us the instructor's very quick reaction. salad vlad, good morning. >> good morning. the skydiver in this video had been cleared by jump and hadn't suffered an even lepileptic episode for years. he said it was the scariest moments of his life. >> yeah i'm very lucky. >> reporter: at first the skydiving session caught on helmet cam appeared to be going according to plan.
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22-year-old christopher jones was making his fifth solo jump more than two miles above the earth in western australia. but at about 9,000 feet jones who was diagnosed with epilepsy as a child said he passed out. >> my arms go back and i roll onto my back and, yeah basically for the next 30 seconds i'm in freefall and unconscious. >> he said he was suffering a seizure midair as he was trying to mack a left turn. his instructor sheldon mcfarland tries but fails to grab him as jones continues to plummet out of control and goes unconscious. >> he started dearching. he wasn't aware he was having an epileptic seizure. >> reporter: mcfarland who's had over 10,000 jumps tried again, this time reaching him and pulled his ripcord with little time to spare. >> he was like super man. grabs me and pulls the chute. yeah i'm here to tell the tale.
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>> reporter: jones regained consciousness at about 3,000 feet before gliding to safety without harm. he had this message for the man who saved him. >> so thankful. so thankful what he did actually. probably saved my life. >> the skydiving academy told me these parachutes come with a failsafe mechanism that deploys when a certain altitude was reached. but when he saw he was spinning out of control, he decided to act sooner rather than later. thank you so much. >> thanks to the instructor that he knew there was an issue. a high school senior faces involuntary manslaughter charges. michelle carter allegedly encouraged her friend conrad roy iii to commit suicide in jewel. police say one of those texts said, let me know when you're going to do it. cbs news rikki klieman is a
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former massachusetts prosecutor. rikki, good morning. >> good morning. >> involuntary manslaughter. >> an interesting charge. this is a bold move from the prosecutor because the actions of this girl as we look at them as assisting, encouraging, pushing, that is through text messages, not literally pushing, it doesn't fit in any neat statute. it's not cyber bullying. it's not harassment. it's not stalking. the prosecutor says this is reprehensible conduct, disgusting conduct, horrible conduct, must be punished conduct, so he goes forward and says let's call this involuntary manslaughter. does it neatly fit in that definition? not so much. we really are going to have a test case here. >> okay. but whether or not it fits under involuntary manslaughter or suicide, whatever it's going to be, these texts are very incriminating, are they not? >> they're horrendous. one of the things that happens as we heard is a thousand texts
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within days coming up to this event. this is a boy whoo has tried to commit suicide in the past. she knows this. she is literally encouraging him. at some point he's in the car. this is carbon monoxide poisoning. he's in the car. he gets out of the car. she tells him to go back in the car. later on she tells him -- when i say tells him, it was through the text. later on she actually texts a friend and admits i was on the phone with him, he got out of the car because it was working. he got scared and i told him to get back in. >> so what's her motivation? >> people says she likes to be in the midst of the story. she likes high drama. she wanted to be part of this story. her conduct afterward is highly bizarre. she's actually raising funds for suicide prevention. >> isn't it illegal to encourage someone to commit suicide when they're going to do it?
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>> this is a legality. if you text technology and the law, always that dilemma, if you text with that encouragement, are you also guilty of a manslaughter? this is a case to watch. >> you said in the beginning it looks bad. it sounds awful. thank you rikki. all right. they abuse the system and keep their jobs so why are the federal government's hands tied? >> how much is this costing the taxpayers? >> there's no question that taxpayers are losing, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars as a conservative estimate. >> cbs news investigates next. and few your heeding off to work go ahead and set dvr so you can watch cbs news any time you'd like. there's a lot more ahead. we'll be right back.
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explicit. don dahler with how it may be backfiring and costing you big. don, good morning. >> good morning. in the private sector if you're caught viewing porn or on company time or intimidating a co-worker, you'd probably be fired immediately. not so if you're a federal employee. at the environmental alt protection agency red tape is preventing the removal of a top-level employee accused of viewing porn two to six hour as day while at work since 2010. even though investigators found 7,000 pornographic files on his computer and even caught him, he remains on the payroll. >> this person is on administrative leave with pay. why didn't you fire this person? >> i actually have to work through the administrative process as you know. >> reporter: that administrative process is the civil service protection system, rules to protect againsticly motivated firings. they give employees the right to appeal a termination, a process
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that could take up to two years. >> there ooh a big difference between trying to protect against that and what we have today. >> reporter: he says those rules make it nearly impossible to fire poor performers or problematic employees, even when they've committed egregious violations. >> many managers would like to get rid of problem employees and find that they have to go through a challenging process. >> reporter: a cbs news analysis of cases under review by the systems review board found other instances of employees who had committed seemingly fireable offenses but were later reinstated to their jobs often with back pay and interest. ♪ we're at the wrc tonight ♪ >> cases such as this are no exception. three years ago the general services administration spent more than $800 on the lavish
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vegas conference. 1,000 sushi rolls were served and a clown and a mind reader were hired for entertainment. two managers got fired but got their jobs back. >> what does it take to be fired from the gsa? >> there's a lock-standing due process they're entitled to as part of their employment. we've start thad process for several individuals that were involved in execution and planning of this conference. >> the appeals board found that while the conference's level of zrav against has no place in government the gsa did not convincingly approve that they had notice of this. the gsa was ordered to cancel the appellant's removals. one manager said he tried for
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more than a year to fire an employee who was intating employees and superiors. at one point he even chase add manager down the hall. in exchange he sent menacing e-mails. he said i can stand over you two. i am 6 foot 3 and weigh 265 and i am not backing down. and by the way, i do know where you live. >> the general procedure, how much is it costing the taxpayers? >> no question they're losing hundreds of millions of dollars. they're losing more than that because they're losing the ability to get the very best out of government. >> congressman jason chaffetz hopes to change that. >> we're going to pass some legislation that deals with some of these specific things like at some point common decency and the recognition that if you're not doing your job and you're creating a hostile work environment, you've got to go.
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on average about 6,000 terminations are appeal each year. about half of those are related to misconduct and poor performance. >> one of those things don that makes no sense. >> i heard everything you said and i'm still going huh? >> it was set up initially to protect employees when there's a new administration that comes in so you can't have vengeance firings but it's really abuse it's gone all the way to the other side. too many americans do not get enough sleep, no kidding. why pain is keeping people up at night. talk about pains, big pains as peop
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it is monday, march 2nd. already it's march 2015. can you believe that. welcome back to "cbs this morning." there is more real news ahead including a "60 minutes" report on lumber liquidators flooring that failed safety standards. we're told what it means for the company. but first here's a look at today's "eye opener" at 8:00. >> no mountain. boston is now within 4 inches of the snowiest winter of all times. >> next storm comes out of the southwest. blizzard conditions possible by the time we get to tonight and tomorrow morning. >> angry disagreements with president obama over possible nuclear deals are at the center of the re-election campaign. >> this is the exact spot where
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boris boris nemtsov was shot. >> the shooting in los angeles. >> thedl mide eastern media are reporting that emwazi's family who are in kuwait have now been brought in for questioning. >> the sky daesh never this video paralyzed and dropping for over 100 miles an hour said it's the scariest moment of his life. >> is it really a reality? if someone wants to commit suicide, they're going to do it anyway. technology and the law, always a dilemma. >> hillary clinton expressing a need for dom compromise. she's hoping for a warm purple face which is the same line grimace uses to get you into his windowless van. >> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" at 8:00 is present presented by subway. i'm charlie rose along with gayle king and norah o'donnell.
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the calendar says spring is a week away. it doesn't look look it. midwest was hit with another storm this sunday. new pictures show a roof that collapsed south of boston. firefighters say it trapped several horses. yet another winter storm is moving from the rockies into the midwest. it will bring ice, snow, and rain to the northeast by tomorrow night and there could be enough snow to break boston's all-time record for a single winter. >> a lockdown at the white house has been lifted after someone tried to sneak in this morning. the secret service says the man tried to enter the white house as a construction worker left. the construction worker was stopped at the gate questioned, and then arrested. agents have not yet identified the man. a spokesman said there may be some tighter security today along pennsylvania avenue. >> lumber liquidators is trying to rebound after last week's stock plunge. shares of the hardwood flooring retailer fell more than 20% wednesday when the company's ceo admitted it was the subject of a
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"60 minutes" investigation. they show how chinese made flooring using formaldehyde. they took cameras into several of the mills in china. that's when mills admitted they're not compliant with california's health and safety standards. >> reporter: they told investigators lumby liquidators is one of their biggest customers. >> how long have you been selling this? >> since last year. >> reporter: cork 2. >> it means it's compliant with federal law but listen to what the manager told us. >> no, no. i've got to be honest with you. it's not. >> that's the same thing the undercover team was told at all three mills they visited. >> all this stuff here from
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lumber liquidateor all of it is carb 2, right? >> yeah. >> but it's not carb 2. >> it's not carb 2. >> he said he trusts the chinese mills he uses. >> they told us they're not carb 2 compliant. i want you to look at this. we shared some of our hidden camera footage with him. >> is it carb 2? >> no no. i've got to be honest with you. >> i don't know the whole situation here. i can guarantee you we'll be in that mill tomorrow and test it. and that is not anything we can condone in any way to save a cent. >> so this concerns you. >> yeah, yeah. of course. >> lumber lick question indicators denies its products do not comply with health and safety laws. they also announced the department of justice may seek charges against them under the
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act of curbing the illegal harvest of tropical hardwood. jill schlesinger is with us this morning. lumber liquidators is trying to respond on twitter but what if you're an owner? >> if you can afford to do it some are writtening up their own floors. but for other people you don't want to go through that expense, you're going to have to wait to see whether that department of justice investigation kicks off whether the company will find something and have some sort of remediation process. unfortunately if you have those floors, you have to keep an eye on the story. we're waiting to see. >> what about the fallout just the news that there was going to be a "6 00 minutes segment." >> we saw the stock drop. so in the last year through friday's close lumber liquidators down by half and
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that was after a very big rise in 2011 to 2013 partially because they cut their cost down on these floors. >> what about the two men bricking the lawsuit back by a group of wall street investors? >> these are called short sellers. they bet against company's fortunes. what they did is went back and said why is it that lumber liquidators have been able to cut their costs? why have their profits increased so much. hey, there was cheap flooring from china. that's how they made so much money. as a result they placed big bets on the table. they're betting against the fortunes of the stock. so far a good bet after last weekend and today. >> it's interesting the investor money behind the lawsuit. does its matter ultimately that the flooring is made in china, not the u.s.? >> no, not at all. it's going to be lickumber
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liquidators' liability. >> we'll keep an eye on the story. the duke of cambridge visited an alley neighborhood called huton. the prince also walked through the forbidden city. that's the home of emperors who rule china. his grandmother the queen stopped and visited nearly 30 years ago. ahead on "cbs this morning," dr. holly phillips is in our toyota gre
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>> announcer: this morning's "eye opener" at 8:00 is sponsored by subway. try the neuterky italiano melt today. eat fresh. larry david's mom was concerned for her son's job security. >> hey mom, did you see the show is number one, mom. >> exactly. >> and you know what she said? do they think you're doing a
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good job, larry? are they going to fire you? did they tell you -- >> no, she would not. >> did they tell you you're doing well? did they say you're doing a good job? >> yeah, she would. weekly. >> that's a mom for you. ahead, more hilarious unseen moments from larry's chat with charlie on last night's "60 minutes." you're watching cbs. >> can we talk about how handsome charlie looks in his orange sweater? >> a lot of people said something to me about his orange sweater. >> they did? >> they did. >> they look gook goode in orange? >> that charlie looks good in color. whether you need a warm up before the big race... or a healthy start before the big meeting there's a choice hotel
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in our "morning rounds" a new national survey on sleep overnight revealed pain may be a source of sleep disorders. with more than half of the americans suffered from some kind of discomfort, the implications goes beyond just feeling refreshed. our dr. holly phillips is with us this morning. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> understanding that pain has
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something to do with sleep. >> it was a survey of a thousand people. they were asked about their sleep habits their overall health and pain levels. they were surprised add how much effect it had on our sleep. people with chronic pain ended up with a 44 minute sleep debt and those with accuse pain had 14 minute sleep debt a week. >> so they use pain medications. >> yeah. pain medications are a problem. and it's sort of counterintuitive. pain medications make us drowsy most of them do. people think you're getting better sleep. but actually under it it changes hour our sleep cycle goes. you may not spend as much time in deep sleep, the truly refreshing sleep and you spent more time in rem or light sleep.
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even though you're in bed for 7 to 9 hours, you're not getting deep sleep. >> deep sleep, dear jesus, is the holy grail. >> dr. o'donnell says to get more exercise. >> dr. o'donnell is right. the difference between people who get enough sleep and those who don't is motivation. people who are motivation and prioritized sleep get 23 minutes more a night than people who don't. >> would that make a difference? 23 minutes more would make a difference? suppose you've got pain issues and yo've got sleep issues. what are you supposed to do with that? >> exactly. >> again i think it comes down to motivation. you do what you can. >> you're motivate. you're motivated. you're still a mess. >> it's true. it's about prioritizing the sleep, making sure you're not on too much pain medicine and as drchltd o'donnell says doing
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exercises, doing yoga trying to cut down on things we know interact with sleep and schedule it. many times we'll schedule it. won't schedule our seven to nine hours of sleep and cancel things that interfere with it. that's when we'll see a difference. >> how about people who don't get seven to nine hours and say they function all right. are they telling the truth? >> you're exactly right. >> you know what? a large portion in my practice says it and i'm focused on it. fatigue is only one sign of sleep, sleep deprivation rather. there are ores we can't pick up on. changes in our mood memory and risk for illnesses, but because you feel fine doesn't mean you're getting enough sleep. >> so i could turn into a raving bitch at any moment. >> certainly not you, gayle. more sleep is better. >> i can have an excuse.
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this morning a trail-blazing teenage high school student with her performance. she wrestled boys at the south dakota state tournament. elaine quijano is here with a story you'll see only on "cbs this morning." good morning. >> good morning. she took it up in grad school. she still faces resistance as a young woman competing in the traditionally male sport. as the only girl as a tournament dominated by boys 15-year-old ron na heaton worrying about her hair. >> i don't like it all over the place. >> but not because she's overly self-conscious. ronna is a wrestler it's a sport the high school sophomore has devoted herself to since the
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third grade. so even though she's the first female to ever participate in south dakota's stiet wrestling tournament, she's treating it like any other competition. >> i've already been in the crowd like this before. it feels like any other tournament or match. i'm out there, trying to work hard and grind it out and beat them. >> ronna has had plenty of success in the sport she's love. she even traveled to sweden in part of a development team. this year almost 12,000 female wresters will compete. a few states have enough competitors to warrant all girl leagues but not south dakota. title ix gives women the right to grapple with the boys but not everyone is on board with the idea. >> girls don't wrestle. >> good for boys. >> in several matches boys forfeited matches rather than
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compete against her. tim heaton is ronna's dade. >> boys that didn't wrestle her they were pretty confident they weren't going to beat her and didn't want that. >> i have never wrestle add female and i have nothing against it. if they want to join the sport, they can. >> he had early doubts about ronna but now sees her as a another wreftd ler. >> she goes out and competes like the others. i'm proud of her. she's doing a helluva job. >> scott miller is ronna's coach. >> she is slowly turning into one of our better wrestlers. a lot of people are watching her and realize it's not garrell issue. it's a wrestler issue and she's a very good wrestler. >> her talent on the mat lead her to a seventh place fin innish. she's now the first female in the state to accomplish that
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feat. ronna knows she'll continue to be faced with complaints about being in a competition that's male-dominated sport. >> i'm still going to wrestle. they can't stop me. >> several of ronna's state competitors declined a quest for an interview. she's already getting interest from many conferences that offer women's wrestling programs. >> great. >> and her competitors welcomed it? >> well not everyone at first, but once she gets out there, they see she is equally qualified to be out there. >> i love they said it's not a girl issue. it's wrestler issue and her competitor said she's doing a helluva job. >> i loved her dad. i love heard dad. >> great story. ahead, the most unstoppable men in baseball with the gorgeous blue eyes. cal ripken jr., we're talking
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welcome back to "cbs this morning." coming up in this half hour why larry david's mom wanted him to be a mailman. the comedian takes charlie on a tour of his childhood home. you ee seal moments that shaped h is career, plus part of the conversation that didn't air on "60 minutes" last night like why he doesn't like therapy. >> that's a great interview. plus speaking of a good interview, cal ripken jr. still holds the record for most consecutive games. baseball's iron man is here to talk about the come back of a-rod, the plan for shorter games and a new kid's book. that's ahead. the japan times says china tees wild panda population is making a comeback. they jumped nearly 17% over a decade. by the end of 2013 there were
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more than 1,800 in the wild. they credit conservation efforts. the show featured models and their children. it was called la viva la mama and featured mother hood. some of the drawings were by children. >> i thought that was a pretty scene. very nice. and "the hollywood reporter" says william shatner spoke about leonard nimoy and responded to the backlash over funeral. >> he said i feel really awful. here i am doing charity work and one of my dearest friends is being buried. he said unlike fox nimoy was warm and loving. he admits he's not always an emotional man but in the career spanning decades he's brought laugher to the audiences worldwide. now he's bringing his worldwide
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wit to broadway. david talked to me on "60 minutes," including moments you did not see last night. >> you're not giek atood add psychoanalysis. >> i'm very good at it. >> the two questions is who is larry david and why is the big question. >> i would say larry david is the guy you see on "curb your enthusiasm. knotts knotts >> no. >> yes. >> no. >> why do you say that? >> that's who i aspire to be. >> aspire to be. >> yes. >> that's an act -- >> that's real. this is the act. >> that's not real. you know what your friends say? sweetheart. kindest guy i know. lovely lovely guy. >> by the way, that's the act. >> that's not the guy i see on tv. >> no.
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the sweetheart is the act. >> his latest act is a broadway comedy about family dysfunction. it's called "fish in the dark." his character is a familiar one, that of a crusty curmudgeon who fights what his mother, his brother, his housekeeper and wife other just about everybody. >> the character is very similar to me. okay it's me. yeah. >> that was a wonderful, wonderful eulogy. >> reporter: sometimes his characters are so similar to the man it's easy to get confused. >> larry, larry -- >> on the hbo show "curb your enthusiasm" his character was actually named larry david. he was politically incorrect a jurk and an inequal opportunity -- >> let me ask you. does she have any proclivity toward chopsticks?
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>> david and jerry seinfeld created the seinfeld. the character closest to their heart was the wild and wheel will george costanza. many of his stories are from real life experiences including those from his childhood. >> this was my apartment. this is write i grew up. 1-h? >> this is where my aunt unkl and cousins grew up. >> the current residents, the galinskys invited us in. >> look at my kitchen. this is where the profile is flooded with warm emotional memories. >> curb your enthusiasm. >> i've moved on. >> this is where she made you
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and created you along with your father. >> i feel nothing. >> gave you the confer dense to go out. >> oh, yeah. >> don't you feel that? >> no. >> what part do you have? i'm completely devoid of any feels what sore at this moment. >> the davidsson' apartment was a lot like seinfeld. he remember as lot of relatives and friends constantly running in and out a lot of yelling and no privacy. we moved on to junior high to the story of his junior days. >> in junior high school and high school i did not participate in anything. i didn't even know things were going on. >> yes, you did. >> i didn't even know there was a prom okay? >> you didn't go to the prom? >> not only didn't i go. did not know about it. this is it. >> this is the very spot where he made his only previous appearance at age 13 in the school play "charlie's aunt" wearing a dress.
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>> this is your class. tell me if you can find yourself. >> oh, there i am. >> you're a good looking kid. >> kid, yes, cute kid. >> what would you have written for your captain alt that time? >> lost at sea. >> did you feel lost at sea? >> yeah. the prom story's true. i didn't know there was a prom so, you know. >> that say as lot. >> that says a lot. >> didn't know. >> didn't know. >> here's what they should have written about you. >> out of it. >> yeah. no. didn't go didn't know. >> that's it. perfect. yeah. i wish i came up with that answer, yeah. >> but he does concede that growing up in brooklyn gave him all sorts of material for later use, some of it very close to the bone. >> what did your mother want you to be? >> a mailman. >> a mailman? >> yes. she wanted me to work in the post office. >> because it was safe in. >> safe yes secure. paychecks. >> pension. >> yeah. that was her dream, by the way. that was a dream.
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>> did you want to call them up and say, hey, mom, look at me? >> yeah. yeah. hey, mom, did you see the show is number one, mom. >> exactly. >> and you know what she'd say? >> what? >> do you think they think you did a good job, laerry, are they going to fire you? >> no, she did not. >> would she say it yeah she would. weekly. >> what impact would that have on you. >> nothing. >> by then you knew. >> yeah yeah yeah of course. she was nervous i was going to get fired. she never was completely secure in the fact that i was able to do this. >> getting out of the house, going to the university of maryland liented his mood. people actually enjoyed his emerging sense of humor. after college he became friends with fellow funny man richard lewis and david starting doing standup, but it was not his finest hour. >> you know, when you do
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standup, there's certain requirements you have to do. you go on stage. when you get introduceding, you say, hey how are you doing, how are you. >> you didn't like it. >> it was false for you. >> it was false. i couldn't do it. >> sometimes you said you would take a look at the audience and not go on. >> yeah did that one once. i got up on stage, looked them over and said i don't think so and i left. >> this is great. great stuff. great progress. >> nope for bring liz own experiences to the screen and now to the stage, larry david is not completely extinct with the characters he's created. >> i want to travel with her on bicycles scuba diving. >> but you never wanted therapy at all. >> no no. i mean i tried it? what happened? >> oh i couldn't stand it. this exploration of the self. >> you just told me you get up every morning thinking about
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self. >> yes, but that's different than talking to a person about it and actually saying it out loud. >> it's harder, isn't it? >> who wants -- this is a human being you're talking to who's a judgment mental human being. why am i telling them anything? i think it just exacerbates everything because then you just become more focus on yourself. here you are talking about yourself for 15 minutes in some session. you're crying, filled with self pity and self-loathing. it's a horrible situation. why put yourself through that and for what? it does no good at all. you know what does good? money and a girlfriend. >> that's great. i love that clip. it wasn't in last night was it? >> no no no. that's what they've done. they found all these gems that didn't make the piece. >> charlie i think he ought to talk to you. that's what i think. forget about the therapy. it was such a good back-and-forth give and take
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between the two of you. you're very different but very talent. you drew a lot of things out of him. >> you pushed him beyond the act. >> norah didn't you say, that's true that's true. >> i like him so much. >> everybody does. i can't wait to see that flag. everybody does. baseball hall of famer cal ripken jr., he's here in studio 57. there he is talking on the green room. he's answering s
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cal rip tin jr. spent his entire 21-year career as a shortstop and third baseman with the baltimore orioles. the iron man will always be known for playing a record 2,632 consecutive games in 17 seasons. wow. he broke lou gehrig's record of 2,131 games, and now in retimer cal ripken enjoys sharing his life experiences with kids through a series of books. the new installment is out. it's called "out at home." cal ripken we're glad you're joining us at the table. this is so interesting. whenever i talk to people that you're coming people always ask the same question that charlie asked you too. do you miss it? >> do i miss playing? >> yeah. everyone asks do you miss it?
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>> i don't miss playing, training, getting ready for the season but you miss being on the inside, knowing all the stuff that happens with baseball. you feel part of the club. when you're outside, you're just like every other person wondering what's happening. i feel like i'm on the outside. >> it's sort of the fun part, eerchs everyone's gearing up for the training? its is the great time. you're getting out of the cold weather. there's no pressures. even the manager is happy. >> baseball is come hanging outside, all the things that come with baseball. >> beer and hot dogs. >> i didn't get to partake in that. >> cal, do you think the game's too long? >> i think there's an issue of pace of play but i don't like the duration of play. you can't say baseball is supposed to be played in this amount of time because each game happens a little differently.
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i wouldn't want to put a limit on games, but i would encourage the game to be played a little more briskly. the guys that know how to play, there's a pace that's really fun to be a part of and fun to watch. >> when did you first meet a-rod? >> he was 16 years old. he came to a spring training game in ft. lauderdale. >> so what's your assess mnlts of his of his future? >> his future? i can't predict his future. i met him when he was young. he was a good-hearted kid. he wanted to play baseball. i'm sure he regrets some of the things that have gone through, but at this stage of his life, i look at him and want him to enjoy baseball. >> has he done everything that's necessary to do to apologize for what he did to himself and the reputation of baseball? >> well, i mean you can look at what he's done and how he's actually handled that and you could offer some criticism if you want, but in the end i think we're all throwing up our hands and saying okay, enough of all
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that. let's get back and play ball and focus on what's going on. it might be a little bit of a distraction for his teammates which is sad. it might be a difficult time for him to relax and enjoy the last parts of his career but my hope is he can. >> your book your latest book in the series of books that you right for kids "out at home" talked about mickey and zoom. they're on the same team but there's a little controversy between the two of them. the reason you write the book is you want to teach kids lessons about sports and good sportsmanship. >> yeah. and some of the issues that are around that we all deal with. the very first one was about my own personal experience. it was hothead. >> that was connor sullivan. >> if things didn't go writeright, i threw my helmet my bat. my mom pulled me down and said that energy is good when those things happen but you should
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channel that in a positive direction. >> when did you start doing this? >> i always liked influencing kids in a positive way. we did some early kids books that were well received and i was a reader. i like to read. for some reason when you write issues down in a book it becomes more factual and meaningful and it's less emotional for kids to think about somebody else having an issue and then relating it back to them. >> issue. that word. you deal with all of those, bullying, hot head. all of those deal with sports manship. >> we had kids who were teased for being bigger but talent comes all over the place so it's good to accept kids for who they are and we try to celebrate the individual accomplishments and also the team's fundamental aspects. >> it's a father/son coaching. did you coach your son? >> i did. >> did he like your coaching?
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>> i retired when i was 8. my dad wasn't around me in a coaching sense at all. the emotional part about a dad and a son he doesn't give me any credit for knowing anything about baseball. sometimes i had to go through other coaches and tell him and he would receive it in the same credible fax that he would receive it from me. >> cal rifken jr., congratulations. >> my pleasure. >> "out at home" goes on sale tomorrow. and another baseball great talks with jeff glor. >> three championships
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